Lauren Dixon

Lauren Dixon knows how to shoot a rifle. She’s written lingerie catalogs for the Army, talks a lot about vaginas, and doesn’t eat animals unless they ask her to first. She’s worked as a gutter poet record store clerk, movie studio intern, pizza slinger, disaffected video store clerk, word nerd professor and counselor, gopher-extraordinaire for the Austin Film Society, and for Bill Hicks’ best friend. She’s also, basically, your garden variety cat whisperer.

She’s tried not to break into abandoned, derelict buildings and ruins since the age of seven, but can’t seem to help herself. Coincidentally, that’s when she started writing. Her work has appeared in Menacing Hedge, DIAGRAM, Three-Lobed Burning Eye, BookLifeNow, Scape, Extract(s), Oracle, Sojourn, INTER, Kadar Koli, and (R)evolve (Naropa). A Clarion West 2010 graduate, Dixon also edited the absurdist literary ‘zine Superficial Flesh. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing-Poetry from Texas State University in San Marcos and a PhD in Humanities-Literary Studies from the University of Texas at Dallas. She lives in complete and total sin with the writer Dallas Taylor in Seattle, Washington.